Simple Audiobook Player

Name: Simple Audiobook Player
Rating: 4.2 (5495 reviews)
Author: mdmt

Simple, fast, feature-rich audiobook player.

This app was removed from Google Play Store on 2025-04-22

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Simple Audiobook Player is a fast, intuitive, and feature-rich Chrome extension designed to enhance your audiobook listening experience. It offers essential functionalities such as bookmarks to save your place, customizable seek buttons both in the app interface and notifications for easy navigation, and a delayed pause feature ideal for those who enjoy listening before sleep.

Additional features include a dual pane landscape mode for better visibility, a light theme for comfortable viewing, and playback control accessible via remote buttons. This extension integrates the trusted FFmpeg libraries under LGPLv2.1, ensuring high-quality audio processing. The source code for its native component is openly available at GitHub.

By:: mdmt
Downloads:: 607,726+
Rating:: 4.20
(5,495)
Version:: 1.8.2 (Last updated: 2023-05-22)
Version code:: 2018020
Creation date:: 2016-07-30
Permissions:: android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO
android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES
android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Size:: 752.30K
Email:: si*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: 8 days ago

User reviews

Simple Audiobook Player is praised for its speed, simplicity, support for multiple formats, and customizable playback controls without ads. Users appreciate bookmarking, sleep timer, and lightweight design. However, some report occasional crashes, random skipping between chapters or books, and missing chapter separation features. Newer Android versions cause SD card file access issues, and notification controls behave inconsistently across devices. Overall, it offers a reliable audio experience with room for improvements in stability and chapter management.

Pros

Simple and intuitive user interface that is fast and easy to use.
Supports multiple audio formats and allows bookmarking with persistent save points.
Customizable playback controls, including notification buttons and headset button mappings.
No advertisements in both free and paid versions, providing an uninterrupted listening experience.
Lightweight app that runs reliably without crashes for most users and supports features like sleep timer and preamplification.

Cons

Occasional random crashes reported by some users, especially after recent updates.
Some users experience problems with playback randomly skipping chapters or switching books mid-listening.
Limited chapter support and no automatic chapter separations for audiobooks, which inconveniences users who switch between listening and physical reading.
Issues with SD card access on newer Android versions, where the app cannot read files properly from external storage.
Notification bar seek buttons and rewind increments may not work or be customizable on some devices, limiting user control.

Recent reviews

Works great on my old Samsung Note 20 reading the SD drive. I got a new Samsung A35 with all OS and apps updated. It is unable to see the files from SD drive. But it sees the folders and thinks they are empty. Not sure if some new feature of the OS is causing issues. It works great reading internal file system files, but not SD card. OneUI 6.1, Android 14, Kernel 5.15.123. To the person who posted about no response... I wonder if its because the developer's address is in Kyiv Ukraine.

Jim Krug, 2024-08-01

Near perfect for what i use it for. The only thing it needs is for the notification player seek buttons can all be changed. The only one currently that works for it is the small widget that i have set to rewind by 30sec the others are default to +- 7 which is to slow to skip though ads. Or maybe its my phone version that makes it not work right.